Atom Syndication Format Overview

Atom is an XML-based document format that describes lists of related information known as "feeds". Feeds are composed of a number of items, known as "entries", each with an extensible set of attached metadata. For example, each entry has a title. The primary use case that Atom addresses is the syndication of Web content such as weblogs and news headlines to Web sites as well as directly to user agents.

Data Model

Apache Wink provides an Atom Syndication Format data model for consuming and producing Atom Feeds and Atom Entries (application/atom+xml). All of the model classes are located under the org.apache.wink.common.model.atom and org.apache.wink.common.model.synd packages.

Important Note The Atom Syndication Format data model can also be used to produce Atom Feeds and Atom Entries in HTML (text/html) and JSON (application/json) formats. For more details regarding HTML see section HTML (TBD). For JSON format see section (TBD)

Atom Feed Support

The following table shows the Atom Feed data models and the representations in which it can be serialized and de-serialized.

Atom Entry Support

The following table shows the Atom Entry data models and the representations in which it can be serialized and de-serialized.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates reading and writing of Atom Feeds  and Atom Entries.

Producing Atom Feed

The following code example demonstrates the creation of an Atom Feed.

    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_ATOM_XML)
    public AtomFeed getFeed() {
        AtomFeed feed = new AtomFeed();
        feed.setId("http://example.com/atomfeed");
        feed.setTitle(new AtomText("Example"));
        feed.setUpdated(new Date());
        AtomLink link1 = new AtomLink();
        ...

        return feed;
    }
}

Consuming Atom Feed

The following code example demonstrates the consumption of an Atom Feed.

    @POST
    @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_ATOM_XML)
    public void setFeed(AtomFeed feed) {
        ...

        return;
    }

Producing Atom Entry

The following code example demonstrates the creation of an Atom Entry.

    @GET
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_ATOM_XML)
    public AtomEntry getEntry() {
        AtomEntry entry = new AtomEntry();
        entry.setId("http://example.com/entry");
        entry.setTitle(new AtomText("Web Demo"));
        entry.getLinks().add(link2);
        entry.setUpdated(new Date());
        entry.setPublished(new Date());
        ...
        return entry;
    }

Consuming Atom Entry

The following code example demonstrates the consumption of an Atom Entry.

    @POST
    @Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_ATOM_XML)
    public void setEntry(AtomEntry entry) {
        ...

        return;
   }